Nathan Wolfe
{{Short description|American virologist (born 1970)}}
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| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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| field = Virology
| work_institution = Stanford, UCLA
| alma_mater = Stanford, Harvard
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Nathan Daniel Wolfe (born 24 August 1970) is an American virologist. He was the founder (in 2007) and director of Global ViralLangreth, Robert. [https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1102/opinions-nathan-wolfe-epidemic-ideas-opinions.html Finding the Next Epidemic Before It Kills.] Forbes. 2 November 2009. and the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University.
Career
Wolfe spent over eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. He is also the founder of Metabiota, which offers both governmental and corporate services for biological threat evaluation and management. He serves on the editorial board of EcoHealth and Scientific American and is a member of DARPA's Defense Science Research Council. His laboratory was among the first to discover and describe the Simian foamy virus.{{Cite web|last=Geographic|first=National|date=June 2020|title=Grantee 2004-2005: Nathan D. Wolfe|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/nathan-d-wolfe|archive-url=|archivedate=|accessdate=9 July 2020|website=National Geographic Emerging Explorers}}
In 2008, he warned that the world was not ready for a pandemic.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/24/us/acfc-virologist-nathan-wolfe/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold|title=World-renowned virologist warned in 2008 about future epidemics|publisher=CNN|last=Dwyer|first=Paul|date=December 24, 2020|access-date=January 3, 2021}}
In 2011, his book The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic AgeNathan Wolfe (2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DgS9Jv_Ofe0C The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age], Henry Holt & Co. was short-listed for the Winton Prize.{{Cite web|title=Nathan Wolfe|url=http://dcp-3.org/author/nathan-wolfe|accessdate=29 June 2020|website=DCP3|archive-date=29 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629184125/http://dcp-3.org/author/nathan-wolfe|url-status=dead}}
As reported in a Wired feature in 2020, Wolfe worked with the German insurance firm Munich Re to offer major corporate leaders pandemic policies, which were not purchased; a stark reality during the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite magazine|last=Ratliff|first=Evan|date=July–August 2020|title=We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn't We?|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/story/nathan-wolfe-global-economic-fallout-pandemic-insurance/|accessdate=9 July 2020}}
Awards
Wolfe has been awarded more than $40 million in funding from a diverse array of sources including the U.S. Department of Defense, Google.org, the National Institutes of Health, the Skoll Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Geographic Society.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Nathan Daniel Wolfe|url=https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/instructor?sunet=ndwolfe|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=29 June 2020|website=|publisher=Stanford University}}
- Fulbright fellowship recipient (1997)
- National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2004)
- NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2005)
- Popular Science: "Brilliant 10" (2006)
- Rolling Stone: "Top 100 Agents of Change" (2009)
- World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders (2010)
Personal life
Wolfe is married to the playwright Lauren Gunderson and has 2 sons. As part of his work, he has lived in Cameroon, Malaysia and Uganda.
References
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External links
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- [https://www.globalviral.org/ Global Viral Forecasting Initiative webpage]
- [https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1102/opinions-nathan-wolfe-epidemic-ideas-opinions.html Profile of Wolfe] in Forbes
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Category:American public health doctors
Category:Harvard Medical School alumni
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Scientists from Detroit